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01/31/2016, NASA scientists have been of the view that there’s quite a bit of water ice on Pluto’s surface but it turns out that the distant planet actually has more frozen water than scientists originally thought it did. A new map created data collected...

01/28/2016, SpaceX is conducting a lot of tests recently, for example, about a week ago it tried the floating barge landing test for its reusable Falcon 9 rocket but didn’t manage to achieve the results it wanted to yet again. However the hover test for the...

01/24/2016, SpaceX surely doesn’t want to spend all of its time conducting supply missions, it wants to take up crewed missions as well, aside from the larger aim of its co-founder and CEO Elon Musk which involves nuking Mars before setting up colonies there....

01/24/2016, In November, last year Blue Origin, a private space company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced that it had successfully landed its New Shephard rocket back to Earth after the suborbital rocket had made its journey to space. it was actually able...

01/20/2016, Depending on which belief you subscribe to, there are currently 8 planets in our solar system. We were taught that there were 9 back in the day, but in recent years scientists seem to think that due to Pluto’s size that it does not constitute as a...

01/18/2016, What better way to honor David Bowie than by naming a constellation after the iconic artist. The world continues to mourn the passing of this great artist who received many prestigious awards during his life, and he has also received one posthumously. A...

01/17/2016, Many of us are curious to know if there’s life in the universe beyond our planet and now there is, even though it’s not on a planet and exists in a controller environment, it’s a significant milestone nonetheless. Astronaut Scott Kelly...

01/15/2016, You would think that because the moon is round, that it should look roughly the same all around, right? However, there is the dark side of the moon, which is basically the side that we don’t see since the moon orbits around us, which according to...

01/12/2016, Last year the European Space Agency sent a lander on Comet 67-P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko but the mission didn’t really go according to plan. The Philae comet lander suffered a rather bumpy landing and it first went quiet and then went into sleep...

12/30/2015, NASA and several private space companies are working hard to take man to Mars, with the idea being to establish a habitat on the Red Planet and eventually colonize it in the future. Much of this has already been done in some excellent Hollywood...

12/24/2015, Seeing countless new high resolution photos of Pluto was definitely one of the highlights of this year, the flyby back in July beamed home some amazing photos of the distant planet in our system, but today NASA has something much better. It has released a...

12/22/2015, If you’ve seen The Martian movie starring Matt Damon earlier this year, you’re probably aware that Damon’s character, in order to survive on Mars with a limited supply of food, grew his own potatoes. This was done by simulating the conditions back...

12/21/2015, About six months back SpaceX went through with a routine Falcon 9 rocket launch, it was an uncrewed mission carrying thousands to tons of supplies for astronauts aboard the International Space Station, unfortunately the rocket exploded merely seconds...

12/20/2015, SpaceX went through with its last rocket launch in June this year and that one didn’t go as planned, the Falcon 9 rocket exploded soon after its launch, and since then all launches have been put on hold. Today SpaceX is going to launch another...